3-524: Hygienic Manufacturing Company , also known as Overton Hygienic Company , was a cosmetics company established by Anthony Overton . It was one of the nation's largest producers of African-American cosmetics. Anthony Overton also ran other businesses from the building, including the Victory Life Insurance Company and Douglass National Bank , the first nationally chartered, African-American-owned bank. The Overton Hygienic Building
6-570: Is a Chicago Landmark and part of the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District in the Douglas community area of Chicago , Illinois . It is located at 3619-3627 South State Street . The building was commissioned by Anthony Overton in 1922 as a combination of a store, office, and manufacturing building. It was regarded as one of the most important buildings within the district. Overton would later commission
9-680: The Chicago Bee Building in 1929. Walter T. Bailey , the first licensed African-American architect in the state of Illinois , had his first Chicago office on the second floor of the Overton Hygienic Building. The building was later named the Palace Hotel and served for some time as a flophouse , with residents crowded into stalls 8 feet by 5½ feet. The second, third, and fourth floors each housed 125 stalls, with dormitory-style bathrooms and showers, for
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